Is US policy-making run by a bipartisan elite cartel?
Perhaps the president is a figurehead; the media show changes, but the long-term
goals—chosen by the CFR—are always the same. If so, Trump’s Middle East
policies will feel different, but they will yield familiar fruits.

According to
many in the mainstream media, the Trump-Netanyahu summit evidenced a
‘pro-Israeli’ turn. That would
be a direct challenge to the HIR model. But we don’t see it. The result of
the summit, we claim, was ‘pro Iran.’ To say otherwise, as we show,
requires important historical omissions.

Can Trump
(assuming he wants to) transform US foreign policy in the Middle East? To
get a sense for how difficult this might
be, we must appreciate how traditional the pro-jihadi policy has been. (It
wasn’t just Obama.)

Will Trump be
different? Israeli patriots expect him to be. After all, he postures as an
enemy of Iran and ISIS. But, what evidence will be diagnostic that Trump
really is delivering on his
Mideast promises?

How to explain
that, after four decades of US policy in the Middle East, the theocratic
and Islamist Iranian state—part
of the ‘Axis of Evil’ according to George Bush Jr.’s diatribes—is stronger
than ever?

This
series of articles is a primer. It contains selected historical knowledge
minimally sufficient to abandon the ‘Establishment
model’ of geopolitical processes and to begin constructing an alternative
model that will explain
and predict the world of international relations. Below is the first
installment.

The Rojava Revolution in northern Syria is a gender-equal, fiercely democratic,religiously tolerant Muslim movement that is bravely fighting and defeating ISIS on the ground. It is
inspiring ordinary people all over the West, and some are lining up to
fight with the Rojavans against the Islamists. Those interested in world geopolitics
and the future of democracy worldwide would do well to pay attention to the
fate of the Rojava movement. For its fate, like the fate of Republican
Spain in the prelude to World War II, will be a harbinger of things to come.

At a Jewish community event called ‘Día Limud’ I
spoke of Netanyahu’s claims concerning the relationship between the German
Nazis and Husseini, father of the Arab Palestinian movement and creator of
PLO/Fatah, today’s ‘Palestinian Authority.’ This information, I explained,
is the Achilles heel of the enemies of Israel. In attendance, José Hamra
Sassón, former News Director of Mexico’s Channel 11 (TV), challenged me to
produce a single academic reference to support myself. An interesting
public debate with Hamra has ensued.

ISIS attacks Paris, all eyes on ISIS: a gang of
terrorists that lord a chunk of the Middle East and claim to be ‘a State.’
Out of nowhere they came, it seems. But any hat trick needs
misdirection—the magician’s trade. Now you see it, now you don’t. Case in
point: strike terror in Paris, capture the attention, erase history. ISIS was US policy. It was
brewing since 2003, when the US invaded Iraq and ‘gifted’ Iraqis with
jihadist terrorism that set the US-military prison system to overflowing,
becoming a “jihadi university,” as the general in charge called it. When
“jihadi university” graduates produced ISIS, and ISIS produced the Syrian
Civil War, the US helped them again. Pay attention, or you won’t see the
next trick coming

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a
speech to the World Zionist Congress, stated that Hajj Amin al Husseini,
the founding father of the Palestinian movement, had convinced the
Nazis to exterminate the European Jews. We
examine here the evidence relevant to this claim.

“Peace for Our Time,” announced a proud Neville Chamberlain
after placing the Czechoslovaks in Hitler’s foaming bite, one he relaxed only to spit threats of
European war and anti-Jewish genocide. “Peace in our time” promised Barack
Obama in his inaugural speech of 2013. History may not
repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Obama
prepares already the signature that will normalize the nuclear program of
terrorist Ali Khamenei, ‘Supreme Leader’ (official title) of Iran, and
would-be emulator of Hitler’s crime against the Jews.

The US government pushes very hard for Israel to
give strategic territory to PLO/Fatah in exchange for a promise of ‘peace.’
But what if PLO/Fatah, also known as the ‘Palestinian
Authority,’ is a proxy of Iran?

In the wake of the recent armed hostilities
between Hamas and Israel I have been getting emails from people who believe that the Israeli government created Hamas, funds Hamas, and controls Hamas. I have seen
the claim on TV and on the radio. I want to be tickled, because I know
where this meme originated. But I can’t laugh—this is too serious.